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  Speaker 1: Coming up on this week's episode of hip Hop Now podcast,
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  Speaker 1: my thoughts on the new album from Westside Doune. Twelve
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  Speaker 1: outcasts have been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame. Did you vote? And Cameron tells us why
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  Speaker 1: we didn't get the Little Wayne Juice and Tana Collabo
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  Speaker 1: mixtape back in the days. Missed opportunities, but nevertheless, let's
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  Speaker 1: do it. Welcome to hip Hop Now. Potts. If you
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  Speaker 1: from the future, you know what you do, get your
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  Speaker 1: ass out of my past life, so disrespect to leg
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  Speaker 1: hip hop is say this today. Let's get right into
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  Speaker 1: the business. What up, y'all? I ain't your host Vegas
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  Speaker 1: and this it's hip Hop Now podcast specifically designed to
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  Speaker 1: keep you caught up on all things hip hop, music
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  Speaker 1: and culture that happened throughout the week. Big shout out
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  Speaker 1: to the subscribers to this channel. Whether you found this
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  Speaker 1: channel through the short Side Post which seemed to be
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  Speaker 1: extremely popular, or the weekly podcast Hip Hop Now Podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you was a original listener in an audio form
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  Speaker 1: and you have now graduated to the video. No shade.
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  Speaker 1: If you still do audio, I appreciate all listeners, or
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  Speaker 1: you like it, and definitely comment because I read the
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  Speaker 1: comments and I respond to the comments. Shout out to you.
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  Speaker 1: We all know what happened this past week. You know
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  Speaker 1: Kimdrick Lamar performed at the halftime show. My opinion was
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  Speaker 1: that I liked it a lot. Also expected something very different,
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  Speaker 1: something very Kendrick Lamar for those who didn't know what
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  Speaker 1: to expect or felt like he jumped off script because
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  Speaker 1: at the super Bowl it's about doing the hits. That's
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  Speaker 1: what it's traditionally has happened. But maybe you've never seen
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  Speaker 1: a Kendrick Lamar show before. There's a couple of things
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  Speaker 1: you can google so it'll make sense. Kendrick Gamar at
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  Speaker 1: the Grammys. Remember that one. Go look that one up.
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  Speaker 1: Kendrick Gamar performance at the Grammys. I forget the year,
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  Speaker 1: but it'll pop up. As soon as you see the
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  Speaker 1: jail suits, you'll see what I'm talking about. Watch that,
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  Speaker 1: and then watch when Doctor Dre had the super Bowl performance,
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  Speaker 1: and specifically look at Kendrick Lamar's performance against the other
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  Speaker 1: performances on the stage, which is not no shade, but
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  Speaker 1: his stuff is different. His stuff is meant to evoke
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  Speaker 1: something that's even deeper than just the lyrics the imagery.
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  Speaker 1: It's a message just as much as what he's saying
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  Speaker 1: in his songs, and that's what he does. So if
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  Speaker 1: anybody wasn't entertained by it or didn't get it, there's
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  Speaker 1: enough guy explaining it online. But if you would like
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  Speaker 1: to see my reaction the day of the Super Bowl afterwards,
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  Speaker 1: shout out to the homie art I did a live
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  Speaker 1: stream shout out to everybody who came through to chop
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  Speaker 1: it up with us and kind of review and react
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  Speaker 1: to what we saw. Everything I had to say about
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  Speaker 1: it was there, and it's also available in the audio stream.
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  Speaker 1: If you would just like to listen to it instead
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  Speaker 1: of watching it, I would say watching it kind of
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  Speaker 1: hits home a little bit more because we had a
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  Speaker 1: little fun with it. And again, I know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: if you like Kendrick Lamar, you're consider the k bot.
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  Speaker 1: But guess what I'm sitting on Kendrick Lamar and Drake
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  Speaker 1: albums because I liked both artists and j Cole I
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  Speaker 1: liked both artists genuinely. It wasn't pick us out for
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  Speaker 1: me ever, Now preference when it comes to battle rapping. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I thought Kendrin would win, but I didn't think it
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  Speaker 1: would go down the way it did. And there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of things that I already had my reservations about
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  Speaker 1: Drake as a man, not as the artist, but as
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  Speaker 1: a man, and some of it spilled into the art,
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  Speaker 1: and I think Kendrick exposed some of that. But nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not as invested as the internet is. To argue
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  Speaker 1: with you. I don't care. I still have my best
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  Speaker 1: of Drakes that I go back to every now and again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to review the new album here on
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  Speaker 1: this podcast unless you want me to, because I think,
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  Speaker 1: going by what I know my audience to be as
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  Speaker 1: far as analytics and the people who respond and how
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  Speaker 1: they respond to what they have to say, I'm the
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  Speaker 1: only one in this crew who cares about listening to
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  Speaker 1: Drake and party next door. But if you want the
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  Speaker 1: quickest review possible, because I have listened, I like three
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  Speaker 1: songs to go look it up and you you don't
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  Speaker 1: see what we think about that, or you can hit
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  Speaker 1: me up on social media at Vegas World, I NC
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  Speaker 1: and I can tell you what detail you know why
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  Speaker 1: I only like three songs off of that project and
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  Speaker 1: why I don't like more. So there you have it.
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  Speaker 1: Big shout out to hip Hop DX dot com, All
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  Speaker 1: hip Hop dot Com, Double Excelle Magazine, and a couple
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  Speaker 1: of places where I get some of these stories from.
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  Speaker 1: Let's get right into the business OUTCAZ has been nominated
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  Speaker 1: to or has become a nominee for the first time
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  Speaker 1: for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now I
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  Speaker 1: know there's some people who you know, it's a long
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  Speaker 1: history of hip hop, not necessarily caring about the Grammys
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  Speaker 1: or all the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because
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  Speaker 1: it's the rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But the
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  Speaker 1: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been inducted rappers
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  Speaker 1: for some time now, and the Grammys had for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, gotten it right with the nominees when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the albums, right like, if it's not all
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  Speaker 1: five of the albums you or I would have at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year, there's some in there. There
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  Speaker 1: was a time where there was nothing there like Common
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  Speaker 1: and Pete Rock twenty years ago at the Grammys would
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  Speaker 1: have never made it into Best of the Year as
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  Speaker 1: a nominee. And don't think not winning an award like
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  Speaker 1: the Grammys, it just means your trash. No, the nomination
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  Speaker 1: holds weight as well. So I'm glad Pete Rock was
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  Speaker 1: able to get a nomination. It's what hip hop wanted, right,
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  Speaker 1: It's recognition. We didn't boycott these things because we just
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  Speaker 1: felt like they were whack. We admired the Grammys and
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  Speaker 1: an artist that one that Grammys or got into the
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  Speaker 1: Rock and Hall of Fame, and we needed that recognition
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  Speaker 1: and it was never recognized, so we just didn't watch it.
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  Speaker 1: We just boycotty. Oh, you're not recognizing the finance and
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  Speaker 1: what we have to offer, and you're not televising that
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  Speaker 1: award either. Win. It's the biggest genre, especially now, you know,
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  Speaker 1: out of all music genres, basically definitely streaming. So that's
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  Speaker 1: where all of that boycott stuff comes from. It's not because, oh,
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  Speaker 1: the Grammys is whack. It's because the Grammy's Rock and
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  Speaker 1: Roll Hall of Fame. At one point, hip hop wasn't recognized.
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  Speaker 1: Hip Hop is still young. Fifty years is still young
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  Speaker 1: compared to other genres of music. Rights, some of those
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  Speaker 1: genres go way beyond fifty years. Hip Hop is young.
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  Speaker 1: It just happened, right, just kicked off. So to be
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  Speaker 1: where we are today, to have a group like Outcasts
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  Speaker 1: nominated in other groups make it into the Rock and
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame because Big Boy ain't telling you all
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  Speaker 1: to boycott. He telling you on a pole. I placed
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  Speaker 1: my vote, I shared my vote on social media. I
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  Speaker 1: think if you like Outcasts and you want to see
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  Speaker 1: them honored in this way or any way in general,
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  Speaker 1: any opportunity to honor Outcasts and then music, you should
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  Speaker 1: go and vote for them because you have a say
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  Speaker 1: and whether or not they get in. And I think
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  Speaker 1: they should be first ballot, right, it's their first time
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  Speaker 1: being nominated, they should be first ballot Hall of Famous.
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  Speaker 1: So here's a list of some of the nominees. And
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  Speaker 1: I think Outcasts is the only hip hop group. So
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  Speaker 1: it's bad company. The Black Crows, Mariah Carrey, Chubby Chacker, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: Chubby check is not in it. It's crazy Joe Cocker,
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  Speaker 1: Billy Idel Joy. I can't see what this says, oh man,
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  Speaker 1: they asked me to log in and all of that.
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  Speaker 1: Hold up, yeah, hold up okay, Billy Idol, Joey Division
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  Speaker 1: New or the Sydney Law per Manya Oasis, Outcast Fish
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  Speaker 1: and I think that said sound Guard, but they make
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  Speaker 1: a I would they make a list that on I
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  Speaker 1: G that disappears like, man, I'm trying to read it,
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  Speaker 1: but that's it. So there's really one hip hop act.
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  Speaker 1: I think off the strength of that, we gotta get
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  Speaker 1: behind outcasts and get them in there. You know, everybody
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  Speaker 1: else fight for the pop spot and the jazz spot
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  Speaker 1: and the balloons or whatever, the folk, the country, everybody
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  Speaker 1: else fight for those spots. Right. I can't believe Billy
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  Speaker 1: Idel is not in it either, because these are select
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  Speaker 1: some iconic artists. I think Variah Carry is probably getting
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  Speaker 1: in there easy. But as far as outcasts, uh, I
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  Speaker 1: think when it comes to the to go and vote,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, I got the link from Big Boys
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  Speaker 1: tweet on Twitter, so we have a Twitter account, Go
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  Speaker 1: to Big Boys page and find it. They probably also
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  Speaker 1: posted it on ig or maybe you could just google
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  Speaker 1: the words, like you know, cast your ballot for the
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and
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  Speaker 1: then you can just go vote biodcasts do it for
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  Speaker 1: hip hop. In other news, what do we have here?
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  Speaker 1: Hold up? We got Instagram? In other news, Cameron basically
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  Speaker 1: tells us the story behind why we never got the
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  Speaker 1: Lil Wayne Juice Santana collaboration. Now, around the time of
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  Speaker 1: the Carter three and maybe a little bit before that,
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  Speaker 1: there was hype around a collaboration between Lil Wayne and
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  Speaker 1: Jules Santana, and they had done some songs together and
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  Speaker 1: they actually sound They their styles, their voices complimented each other,
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  Speaker 1: So I was low key kind of looking forward to it.
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  Speaker 1: This is on hip Hop dx dot com and Cameron
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  Speaker 1: gave some insight. The name of oh Boy the half
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  Speaker 1: for guy. This was the name of the mixtape. I
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  Speaker 1: can't feel my face if you know, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you if you've seen Jules Santana while his dentures and
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  Speaker 1: you know his story and you've seen Wayne, Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: probably couldn't feel their face. But here's what what's listed
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  Speaker 1: on hip Hop d x the article. In the mid
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  Speaker 1: two thousands, Jewels and Weezy had fans in a frenzy
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  Speaker 1: with reports of a joint album on the horizon, but
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  Speaker 1: nothing came to light. There ended up being a version
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  Speaker 1: of the album that leaked online and there was very
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  Speaker 1: little fanfare compared to what it could have been had
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  Speaker 1: the project got a full release. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I heard that now, I think about it. But on
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  Speaker 1: Cambron's latest episode of his show Talk with Flea, he
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  Speaker 1: addressed it, and here's what he said, and I quote
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  Speaker 1: Killer addressed the ongoing narrative that he blocked the effort
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  Speaker 1: from coming out, though he did admit it was when
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  Speaker 1: we wasn't all on the same page. Okay, whatever, Phy's
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  Speaker 1: a quote. Lowayne wasn't the super superstar the dipset rapper began.
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  Speaker 1: He was a star, but remember Lil Wayne emerged into
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  Speaker 1: a superstar after the Carter albums and Milly and all
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  Speaker 1: that ish, So Wayne didn't put out his first album
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  Speaker 1: at this point, Caim, I don't know if you're remembering
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  Speaker 1: the timeline, but let's keep going. So Jewles and Lil
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  Speaker 1: Wayne had a project Deaf I had a project def
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  Speaker 1: Jam is under Universal, which Low Wayne was signed to.
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  Speaker 1: So when they wanted to put the project out, Universal
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  Speaker 1: told Death Jam, while Lol Wayne still didn't give us
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  Speaker 1: his album yet. So if y'all want to put his
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  Speaker 1: project out, we're taking ninety five percent, and death Jam
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  Speaker 1: y'all could take five percent. So Steve Garley shout out
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  Speaker 1: to Steve Garley, he's now the head lawyer for a
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  Speaker 1: universal and at the time he was the head lawyer
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  Speaker 1: for death Jam and we're still good to this day.
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  Speaker 1: We had a joint venture deal with death Jam, so
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  Speaker 1: if that project came out, that means death Jam would
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  Speaker 1: get two point five percent of the album and me
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  Speaker 1: and Jewles would get two point five percent of the album.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, can we love you and all that,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not doing that. We can't do that. And
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  Speaker 1: they was more on the tip because Low Wayne didn't
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  Speaker 1: even hand in his project yet, so they like, how
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  Speaker 1: are we going to okay the Jews and Wayne project?
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  Speaker 1: If Lol Wayne didn't even hand in his project, maybe
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  Speaker 1: we can revisit it after Lil Wayne's project comes out,
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  Speaker 1: but until then no, So he goes on to speak
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more about this and in essence, the
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  Speaker 1: teasing of this project was around five six, right. Lol
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  Speaker 1: Wayne released The Carter in four, so his first album,
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  Speaker 1: and in four with his fourth album, studio album Okay.
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  Speaker 1: The platinum selling The Carter three followed a year and
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  Speaker 1: a half later at two thousand and five. So this
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  Speaker 1: is the thing, right, It's just like I said, they
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  Speaker 1: around the Carter, well, the Carter two between the Carter
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  Speaker 1: two and three, they were teasing the album. So Cam
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  Speaker 1: saying he didn't even release an album yet seems weird because,
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  Speaker 1: for one, Lowayne had albums before the Carter right, So
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  Speaker 1: maybe he's just talking about a new deal that started
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  Speaker 1: with the Carter series, right, So maybe that the release
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  Speaker 1: of the albums versus when they were making these deals.
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  Speaker 1: To making these decisions are another thing, because maybe the
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  Speaker 1: album isn't handed in at the time they're discussing a
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  Speaker 1: deal to release this joint of collaborative album. To me,
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  Speaker 1: it felt like right in between the Carter two and
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  Speaker 1: the car To three and jus Antanne was on the
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  Speaker 1: Carter three was the time to release it. But apparently
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  Speaker 1: it never happened and they didn't like to splits and
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: he goes into more detail about it. But it's unfortunate
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  Speaker 1: and maybe this is a big maybe maybe because of
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  Speaker 1: today where we've received like I don't know what happened
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  Speaker 1: to it on streaming services, but like the actual Jay
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  Speaker 1: Electronica solo album that was supposed to release, remember it
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  Speaker 1: dropped the same time he dropped that joint with Jay,
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  Speaker 1: but I don't know what happened to it on streaming services.
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  Speaker 1: Because now you can't find it. It's called Act Too.
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  Speaker 1: It actually dropped and most it wasn't really that great,
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  Speaker 1: but I guess that's because we had heard some of
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  Speaker 1: the songs that were on there, and too much time
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  Speaker 1: had passed. I think like ten years had passed, but
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: we still got the Jay Electronica album. And again I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about the one with jay Z. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the solo album we had been waiting for. We
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  Speaker 1: got it during the pandemic. Same thing with even though
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  Speaker 1: it is only on vinyl. Same thing with Nads I
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  Speaker 1: am the biography we finally got like aficial release. It
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  Speaker 1: was only on vinyl. I haven't right, but at least
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  Speaker 1: it came out officially. Most of us from back in
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  Speaker 1: that time or whatever have been excuse me, listening to
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: the bootleg forever, which was fine by me, but there
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  Speaker 1: was never really official release. And then there's been other
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: joints like Rod Digga album that got shelled finally, so
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: the light of day Foxy Brown's final album, which to
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  Speaker 1: me was it might be her best. I ain't gonna
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  Speaker 1: lie out of her catalog. It was too that was
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  Speaker 1: finally released some years later. So I and I large
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Professor's album The LP, Like all of these albums that
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  Speaker 1: were highly anticipated or projects that were highly dissipated but
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  Speaker 1: never dropped, eventually because of time and streaming and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff saw the light of day, like we actually
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  Speaker 1: have a copy. Even Power of a dollar fifty cent
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  Speaker 1: shelved album from Colombia saw a release years later. So
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  Speaker 1: to me, even though I would not want a new
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  Speaker 1: Lil Wayne and Jules Santana collaboro because I feel like
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  Speaker 1: Lil Wayne when it comes to the music, like recorded
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  Speaker 1: in the studio, you know, he still got it. Jews.
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  Speaker 1: On the other hand, it feels like the time has
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  Speaker 1: passed where we really cared about what he does and
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  Speaker 1: what he has to say, even though he's released records
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  Speaker 1: that I kind of like. But I think he stayed
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  Speaker 1: away from the game a little too long, you know.
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  Speaker 1: But if they are sitting on that collaborative project from
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  Speaker 1: back then, I think with the context of knowing like
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  Speaker 1: this was supposed to drop in five or six or
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was in between. Once you had that context
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  Speaker 1: of when it was supposed to drop, and you think
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  Speaker 1: back to who Lula Wayne was at that time and
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  Speaker 1: who June Santana was at that time, and uh, you know,
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  Speaker 1: even at collaborations. To me, it's an easy listen. After that,
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  Speaker 1: I know, like, this is not new, but this is
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  Speaker 1: something I've never heard. Let me know in the comments
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  Speaker 1: section if you've heard the lead version of this project,
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  Speaker 1: because I haven't. And from what the little bit that
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  Speaker 1: I read, it seems like they said it would have
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  Speaker 1: been They would it would have benefited from an official
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  Speaker 1: release as to pose opposed to how it was released.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. We'll see and last all right,
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  Speaker 1: So West Side Gun at one point took a break,
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  Speaker 1: you know, from rapping, a real break in probably towards
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  Speaker 1: the end of twenty twenty four. He dropped like two albums,
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  Speaker 1: one which was like an EP wasn't really that great
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  Speaker 1: to me, I forget the name. Then the other one,
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  Speaker 1: which I also forget the name. Oh I can't keep
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  Speaker 1: forgetting the names. But hey man, I'm saying, it's just
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  Speaker 1: so much music that comes down sometimes. Still Praying that's
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  Speaker 1: the one that had Sid Vicious from Wrestling on the cover,
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  Speaker 1: And even though the EP prior to that that he
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  Speaker 1: released wasn't good to me, Still Praying was okay. But
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  Speaker 1: I had a high expectations because Westside Gold had kind
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  Speaker 1: of taken a break. I believe his brother passed away,
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  Speaker 1: but now he has a new project which is kind
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  Speaker 1: of dedicated to his brother, who I believe his name
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  Speaker 1: is Big Dump. Wait did he pass away? Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't have a brother that passed away, right, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, Please in the comments if I'm mixing up
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  Speaker 1: somebody locked up versus somebody who passed But I'm almost
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  Speaker 1: positive it was his brother that passed away, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what he's talking about. But he has a new project
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  Speaker 1: out called twelve. On the cover it says Free Sly
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  Speaker 1: or Big Dump, right, So to me, it's a dedication album,
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  Speaker 1: but not necessarily an album that's or related to that, right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: I guess you can call it almost like a celebration of,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: you know, his life or whatever. But I have to
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: tell y'all, you know my review scale for these types
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: of things. The first listen it was just let me
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: hear what you got. Second listen is all right, let
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: me let me hear what you got, let me hear
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: the details, let me dig into what's being said, the concept,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: all that stuff, and the third listener is just to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: confirm what I heard and for a project that is
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: eleven songs coming in around forty four minutes in length.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: As far as time, I really like it. It's probably
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: the one album from him that I've liked in a
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: long time. Let me see, let me just go to
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: West Side Gun's catalog real quick on my phone. Please
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: don't kill me for it, but I'm just saying I
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: just need to look to get a sense of the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: last new project that I like from the last new
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: project I liked from West Side Gun was in or
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: liked a lot? Was in twenty twenty two? Is the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: album called ten. That was the last time I really
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: liked it because he had then You Pray for Me?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: That wasn't that great? Paul in Nash two was kind
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of like some older stuff with him and Conway and
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: I dug it. But I don't really go back to
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: it still praying It's funny because that EP is. Where's
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: that EP at? It's not here anymore? Or do you
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: take it off? I think the EP was, Yeah, it
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: was called eleven. I didn't really like that. But this
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: new project, twelve, I like it a lot. I like
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: it a lot. I like the beats, the prims, I
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: like the fact that it's not long, and it has
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: like sometimes there could be too many songs, and sometimes
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: he believes something's more ill than I do as a
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: as a fan of his, Like, it's not that ill.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: Like nothing, whatever, magical, whatever you think is happening is
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: not happening. Right, It's like an art work in the city.
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: I'm just sitting there, like, No, it's not, it's not
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: it's it just sounds like the same thing as just me.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Some people may feel that way about this twelve joint,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: but not no way. This album is more of a
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: collaboration than just a Westside Gun solo album. I guess
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: you can say that about most of his projects, but
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: I think this one more than most because st Nak
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: and did I say that right? Is that his name
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: and Stove God cooks on like every song on here
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: except for two. There's only two songs where either one
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: of those guys don't appear. A dude named brother Tom
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: so Os is on here. If that's not you say
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: his name, okay, cool, let me know. I don't know.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I can't keep up with these days. Oh hold up,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: hold on. I hate playing Mama State. No, don't want
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: that to play. Some of the standouts for me the
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Boswell track, the first song you hear. I felt like
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that gout be writing gear with this joint as soon
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: as I heard it. Adam Page was dope feature in
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Stove God. First of all stove If you love Stove
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: God cooks, he's a where he's where, he has a verse.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: He's stepped on this project like he it is. It's
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: what I need when I wont like yo, when we
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: gonna get a Stove God album, Like, okay, I'm good
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: for a little while. I feel like I got something.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: So it's that I feel like, Oh, I like fifty five,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: that's another one that's good. I like what's his other one,
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Outlander that's Westside done by myself, and I like the
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: final track, which is called Dumb World. I feel like
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: this album has it's almost like a tail of two
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: halves and it's not the worst thing in the world
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: because the sequences is you you kind of get the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: boom bag, but you get the drums and you get
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: it feels or high energy, and then somewhere in the middle, specifically,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: when you hit the song health Science, the tempo the
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: vibe slows down a little bit, and it's that way
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: almost throughout the album, the rest of the album until
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: maybe dump World, which is the last track. So it's
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: almost like, you know, you start off, you know, we hype,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: you know, mad gunn sounds coming at you, and then
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: it all slows down and it becomes more methodical, you
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. And I don't mean that trying
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: to be like super lyrical miracles spiritual hip hop fan talk.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: I mean like they taking their time at that point,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: which is cool. You know, I didn't mind it, you know,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: but that opening as what had me like, Yeah, I'm
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: kind of liking this project. I feel like brother Tom
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and Sos or whatever his name is, who is probably
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: an artists who's on Griselda, and he's very different from
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the other artists on on Griselda Records. I think he
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: drags down the vibe a little bit. He can run,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: he's talking that talk, but there's something about him that
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: feels like when you're listening to the animation that Westside
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Gun brings to a track, the animation that Stole God
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: brings to a track, and even st Nat right like
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about him, even his energy, it's everything
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: is up extra hypestylized I like the way, like, you know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: because I was listening in the car, and I like
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the way. You know, there's always ad libs and sound
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: effects and all that, but there's a lot here, but
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: I feel like it's well placed. And they played with
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the left and right channels with him also, so if
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: you got a good set of headphones or or speakers
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: at home or in your car or whatever, you'll be
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: able to hear you know, the things I was saying,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: like they were taking advantage of spatial audio for those
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: who don't know what that is. That's when not just
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: left and right channels, but you can make different sounds
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: sound like they're behind you or further away or closer
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and things like that. So it kind of played into
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the listening experience for me. And I feel like this dude,
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: brother Tom Sos or whatever, he just didn't fit. So
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: it kind of like, for example, he's on the song
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: health Science. That track, I feel like it's cool, Okay,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: everything is slowing down, you got a new guy or whatever,
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: but it feels like a detour from the album you're
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: listening to when you get to that the song gumbo
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: ya Ya, I had to skip three times every time
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I went first listen, I was like, enough, skip right
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: third time. The second time I was like, okay, I'm
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: try to the end, and then I just skip, Like
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: why are you trying? You don't like it? Okay, third listen.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: As soon as I saw it was coming up, skip,
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: get that skip really skip, you know, skip like Shannon Sharp.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: So that was one thing that I kind of was like,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: But to me, it didn't make me dislike the album
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: as a whole. And if there's one song that I skip,
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: also skip is bury me with a stove. Now. When
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: I read that title, I was like, okay, nothing stove guy.
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: He's not on it, and s Steve Nakin's on it
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: and he has a verse and I like when he rhymes.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: But man, if you could hit a hook, zombie rapping zombie.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: I'm not exaggerating, Like he's wigging up from getting knocked
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: out by the Hulk and like his jaws broken. He
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: don't know what he is and he's disoriented and all
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: he could do is like murmur some something out to
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: let you know that. It says helped me, Like I'm
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: not joking, I'm not joking. I'm in the car with
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: my wife and she knows I'm reviewing this, so we
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: gotta listen, and she's just staring at me, like, so,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: you're not gonna skip this one. It's just not good.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I know there's some dudes out there. I mean, I
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: know some of y'all love like that. You don't know
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: about killing No, I don't know. Skip skip, Okay, skip
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it skip. That's that's what happened. But with that being said,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: considering there's only eleven songs, only forty four minutes, I'm
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: a West Side Gun than I like, I like a little,
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I like, I love Stove, God cooks. You know what
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: I'm saying. I like ste Nak, right, I have no
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: problem with him beyond that one hook. That's it. And
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: even this dude, brother Tom Sos doesn't bring this album
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: down to be feeling like it's one of the best
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: of the year already for me. Now, always do this
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: because there's certain people who have opinions about artists, and
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: what I say won't make them like or hate it. Right, So,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: if you love Westside Gun, you love everything he does,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: you might start calling this classic. I wouldn't agree with you,
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: but you might because I feel like this is the
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: best he's done since twenty twenty two. That's how I
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: feel about it. You know what I'm saying. If you
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: don't like foot boom boom boom boom, you like getting
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: shot at in the track, like, you don't like all
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: of that, it is not for you. You don't like
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: stove guy talking about a stove like it's supposed to
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: be so special, Like why is he? Like? Why is
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: he talking about the stove like that? You're not gonna
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: like it. But if you like me, hip hop is
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: a variety of things with a variety of artists who
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: bring different, you know, sounds and flows and lyrics to
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: the table. And I feel like, what'side gun lyrics? I
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: was kind of like he rap and rapping, So I like,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: you know again, will it be my top five of
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: the year? I would say that would be tough to
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: call right now because there's a lot of supposedly hopefully
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: dope projects on the horizon for this year that could
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: potentially be better than this. But I feel as far
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: as like, when I look back at the year at
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: the end of this year, this will be one of
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: the first albums I was like, I got an album
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: that released in twenty twenty five that I'm going to
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: listen to on a regular basis so they ain't have it.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Have you heard what side Gunn's brand new album twelve?
• 33:17
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• 33:21
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• 33:23
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• 33:29
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• 33:33
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• 33:59
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